>I need to write a program to read the information from the Pictures field and save it as a BMP file.

Hi Kia,

There is a function that I think does exactly what you want. Run a search for "general" on the vfp help file.

If I remember correctly it's two functions; one for getting a file's contents into a field and the other to output the field's contents to a file.

Getgeneral() maybe? sorry, I can't remember more.

alex